Improvement in cooking-stoves



D. H. NATION & E. C. LITTLE.

Gooking-Stnves.

N0, 142,935. PatentedSeptemberl6,l873.

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Witnesses InvZmt/ur.

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IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,935, datedSeptember 16, 1.873; application filed April 11, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID H. NATION and EZEKIEL C. LITTLE, of St.Louis, in the county of St. Louis and in the State of Mis-A souri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoves; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specication.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a lowr waterreservoir cooking-stove, as will be hereinafter morefully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referrmg to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, andFig. 2 is a plan view,part in horizontal section, of our cooking-stove.

A represents the main baking-oven. B is a supplementary baking-oven orhot closet. 0 is the flre-chamber5 D, the wash-boiler or reservoir. E isthe hot-air chamber or sheetflue under the boiler. F is a verticaldescending sheet-flue; G, the exit-flue. H H are the vertical 'end fluesand side dues of the bottom,

and I is a center vertical flue back of main oven, connecting with thecenter flue of the bottom. K is a plate between the front of the rearoven B and the back of the iiues H H and I. K is a plate extending fromthe top plate of the stove rearward on an incline to the plate whichsupports the reservoir above the sheet-flue E. J is the back plate ofthe stove. L is the damper which divides the flues E and F. Mis a platemade to cover or shut off the center flue I, upon which the damperrests.

When using the direct draft the damper L, which extends the whole Widthof the stove, will occupy a horizontal line parallel with the plate M,and at such time the heated products of combustion pass through thesheet-nues F F into the hot-air chamber or flue E, and out of exit-pipeG. When the indirect draft is used the damper will occupy the position,as shown in dotted lines in Figl, at about right down the vertical, andinto the bottom, side ues H H, and then turn into the center bottom, andup the center rear vertical, ue I,

into the hot-air chamber of ue E, and out of the exit-flue G.

The plates K K are made in two parts, one part resting upon the topplate of the flue E, and the other part connecting with the bottom plateof the flue E, each being securely held by the proper lianges to receivethem. The top plate of the ue E will be made with two boiler-holes and aloose center cross-piece, as shown in Fig. 2, to receive covers, so thatWhen the boiler is not used thereon this part of the stove can be usedfor ordinary cooking purposes. The back plate J of the stove will bemade with a swell or projection at its top edge for the purpose ofaccommodating the exit-flue G without necessitating so large an oven atB. The bottom plate of the stove will be made to extend the full lengthof the stove-body from N to N but the body of the stove We intend todisconnect at the divisionplate K, though the Whole will be mountedtogether and secured to the bottom plate by means of bolts at thecorners of the body, and also at the point of division-plate K.

The advantage of this invention consists chiefly in the portability ofthe boiler, by the removal of which we virtually have a six-hole stove.In fact, it is a low reservoir-stove Without a reservoir. The boiler,being heated only on its bottom surface, where there will always bewater, if any at allvin the reservoir, is less liable to crack or burnout. Again, Where the reservoirs are a xture, and form a part of thebody of the stove, the stove becomes entirely useless if the reservoirsare broken in transportation, handling, or other causes, which is oftenthe case. Our stove is shipped mounted complete independent of thereservoir, and any common wash-boiler can be used for the purpose of areservoir that conforms to the size of the boiler-holes. Vhen the boileris removed from the stove, this part made to receive it can be used forordinary cooking purposes.

We do not claim under this patent the arrangement of an air-chamber,communicating at the top With the air in the room, between thestove-back and reservoir-front; nor do we claim the sheet-line under thereservoir-bottom, as herein shown, as these features are thesubject-matter of a separate application for Letters Patent applied forby us.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The arrangement of the fines E, F, H H, and I, and plates K K', incombination with a double-ovenV cooking-stove, for the purposes hereinset forth.

2. The descending'vertical sheet-due F, in combination with the ilnes HE and I, coverin g-plate M, and hot-air chamber or ne E, al1

Witnesses:

ARTHUR L. PIERCE, BENJAMIN S. BUCK.

